Obituaries
Marie Sawatzky
Dec 3, 2010
Marie Sawatzky, age 91, of St. James died on Friday, December 3, 2010, at Pleasant View Good Samaritan Center in St. James. Marie Quiring was born October 1, 1919 at Mt. Lake, MN, the daughter of Bernard and Hattie (Haygood) Quiring. Marie attended rural school while growing up loving and working on the family farm. On May 20, 1938,...
George Zeidler
Dec 2, 2010
Visitation will be one hour prior to the services at the church on Monday George Zeidler, age 97, of St. James, died on Thursday, December 2, 2010, at Pleasant View Good Samaritan Center in St. James. George Henry Zeidler was born November 4, 1913, to parents John and Mary (Westerman) Zeidler of rural St. James. George was a twin...
Patrick Ladd
Nov 30, 2010
Patrick Henry Arnold Ladd was born on December 9, 1957 in Sleepy Eye, MN, the son of Watson Mary (Remus) Ladd. He grew up in Sleepy Eye and graduated from St. Mary's High School. He served in the U.S. Army for three years, during which he was stationed in South Korea. As of the last three years he was...
Hildagard Forster
Nov 29, 2010
Hildegard Barbara Seidl was born on March 10, 1915 in Sleepy Eye, MN, the daughter of Joseph Katherine (Suess) Seidl. She grew up and attended grade school in Sleepy Eye. She married Raymond J. Forster on November 23, 1939 at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Sleepy Eye. Hildegard worked at AJ Pietrus, Piehl Produce, cleaned house for people and...
Roy Suker
Nov 29, 2010
Roy William Suker was born on April 2, 1917 in Lakefield, MN, the son of Ben Mayme (Wolf) Suker. Roy married Viola Sandhoefner on July 22, 1942 in New Ulm, MN. Roy lived in Sleepy Eye his entire life, except for three years when he served in Italy and North Africa during World War ll. He loved to cook,...
Althea Stoneberg
Nov 28, 2010
Althea Mabel Lindstrom, daughter of Carl and Agnes (Topper) Lindstrom, was born January 15, 1917 in Odin Township, MN. She grew up on a farm near Butterfield. On December 20, 1941, she was united in marriage to William Pankratz in Mountain Lake. After their marriage they farmed their entire working years in Butterfield and the Mountain Lake area. William...
Violet Panitzke
Nov 27, 2010
Violet Panitzke was born July 13, 1914, to Peter and Elva (Rosenkranz) Sorensen in West Point, NE. Violet loved to tell stories of her life in the early 1900's. She remembered her family moving to Minnesota when she was 5 years old. They traveled by train, and horse and wagon. Violet's family farmed near Evan, MN and she and...
Elfrieda Torssell
Nov 26, 2010
Elfrieda Caroline Torssell was born in Fond du Lac County, WI, the daughter of Edward and Josephine (Steffes) Nickel. She married Neil Torssell on December 28, 1946 in Milwaukee, WI. She has lived in Minneapolis, MN, Tomah, WI, Fort Atkinson, WI, and in 1956 they moved to Sleepy Eye. Elfrieda worked with Neil at Tre-Mar Photography in Sleepy Eye....
Mable Bloemke
Nov 26, 2010
Mable L. Bloemke was born on March 10, 1913 in Willow Creek, MN, the daughter of Albert and Bertha (Beckman) Hoffmann. She grew up in Sanborn where she attended school. She was united in marriage to Henry Bloemke on May 28, 1932 at Zion Lutheran Church in Sanborn. She lived most of her married life on the farm, except...
Loren Gatzlaff
Nov 24, 2010
Loren Ervin Gatzlaff was born December 7, 1927, on the family farm in Stately Township the son of Ervin and Adeline (Parr) Gatzlaff. He was united in marriage to Marjorie Buhr on February 19, 1951, at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Springfield. Loren farmed his entire life on the family farm before retiring in 1987. He was a member...
John Awiszus
Nov 24, 2010
John F Awiszus, 93, passed away November 24, 2010 at Bethany St. Joseph Home in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He was born August 3, 1917 to Henry and Cecilia Awiszus in Iroquois, S.D. He married Frieda Field, October 7, 1940 at the Redeemer Lutheran Parsonage in Wayne, NE. Following their marriage, the couple lived in Wisner and Norfolk, NE until...
Edward Reiner
Nov 23, 2010
Edward Reiner was born on July 8, 1932, on his family's farm in Brown County, Minnesota. His parents were Frank and Ernestine (Sturm) Reiner who had six children, of whom 2 are living. Ed went to a country school in Springfield then went to work full time on the farm. Ed's friends arranged a blind date with Marjorie Sellner....
Wilma Kissner
Nov 21, 2010
Wilma Kissner, aged 92, died Sunday, November 21, 2010 at 1:30 a.m. at Valley View Manor in Lamberton MN where she was a resident since April 2008. She was born to William B. and Emma (Paulson) Purrington on April 11, 1918 in Windom MN. She graduated from Windom High School and continued on as school secretary until her marriage...
Eugene Maurer
Nov 20, 2010
Eugene Merlin Maurer was born on June 16, 1945 in Richmond, CA, the son of Eugene Sr. Mary Ann (Berberich) Maurer. He was raised on farms in Springfield and Sleepy Eye area. Gene graduated from St. Mary's High School in Sleepy Eye and Mankato State with a degree in Elementary Education. He married Diane Ludewig at St. Mary's Church...
Conrad Hammar
Nov 19, 2010
Conrad H Hammar was born January 29th, 1928 in New Haven,CT. His father was teaching at Yale University and moved to other universities before receiving tenure at Columbia, Missouri, during Conrad's high school years. He joined the Navy in 1945 at the age of 17 and served for 3 years after which he joined his parents in Berlin, Germany....
Dolores Fennern
Nov 17, 2010
Dolores Emma Fennern was born March 11, 1925 to Herman and Augusta Hoffman in Willow Lake Township, Redwood County. She attended school district 67 and after graduation she helped on the family farm. On July 1, 1947 she married George Fennern at Trinity Lutheran Church in Willow Lake Township. In March of 1945 she began working at St. John's...
Beatrice Renner
Nov 17, 2010
Beatrice was born July 19, 1909 in Lake Lenore, Saskatchewan, Canada to Michael and Anna Koller Hornick. Her parents homesteaded in Canada before moving to the Rio Grande Valley in Texas where Beatrice attended grade school in Mission Texas. In 1921 the family moved to Minnesota where she attended St. Raphael Catholic School and graduated from Springfield High School...
Grace Petersen
Nov 16, 2010
Visitation will continue at Church on Saturday from 1:00pm until service time. Grace Delores Petersen, age 89, formerly of St. James died on Tuesday, November 16, 2010, at the home of her daughter in Chehalis, WA. Grace Delores Johnson was born November 11, 1921, in Grantsburg, Wisconsin, the daughter of Albert and Mary (Engstrom) Johnson. Grace grew up on...
Marion Sellner
Nov 15, 2010
Marion Mary Hillesheim was born on July 14, 1918 in Stark Township, Brown County, MN, the daughter of Meinrad Bertha (Wiltscheck) Hillesheim. She married Arthur J. Sellner on October 15, 1947 at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Sleepy Eye. Marion and Art farmed South of Sleepy Eye for 34 years before moving to town 29 years ago. Faith and...
Della Schieffert
Nov 12, 2010
Della Schieffert was born November 18, 1925 to George and Gladys (Claussen) Mickelson, Jr. in Leavenworth, MN. She attended school in Leavenworth. Della and her husband Ed farmed in Prairieville Township until 1995 when they moved to Sleepy Eye. In 2007 she moved to Ross Park Apartments where she enjoyed living. Della was a member of American Legion Auxiliary,...
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